I think the hardest part of a relationship with your significant other when there are less desirable relationships with step children involved, is the utter deviation knowing your partner will never be able to understand what you go through. I'm sure we all have different situations and react to them all differently, but the toll this steplife can put on us and our relationships is heavy sometimes.

When you as a couple have everything you ever wanted in each other, it's hard to call it quits because you can't agree on anything when it comes to the kids. The rest of them will all soon be out of the house and I can not wait for that day. I can not believe that I actually just wrote that. Seems cruel. But it's the truth.

These kids are the most disrespectful, rude, selfish people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. I don't wish bad on them. I honestly don't. But I may crack a smile behind closed doors when I hear the utter messes they get themselves into when they travel down their path of life. And when that happens, I will turn to my husband and just shake my head. Because he is the one that created it. And at that point, he will still not understand.